Comments on: Finding the primary pivot

By: Learning Alliances » links for 2007-10-16

Learning Alliances » links for 2007-10-16 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:57 +0000

[...] Finding the primary pivot – Bokardo Over time, the primary pivot of social software has shifted away from the topic thread and toward the person. (tags: socialnetworking design) [...]

By: A simple illustration of social design - Bokardo

A simple illustration of social design - Bokardo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:34:48 +0000

[...] different (PlanetAll, Friendster) is that they focused on the person as the primary pivot (see Finding the Primary Pivot), meaning that you model relationships between people (friend them). This was another huge step in [...]

By: Ivan Blinkov

Ivan Blinkov — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:18:51 +0000

Really important part of process of developing an internet application, which frequently gets lost among many other things which ought to be considered.

By: Episode 19 - David Heinemeier Hansson

Episode 19 - David Heinemeier Hansson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:06:03 +0000

[...] Finding the primary pivot [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:37:30 +0000

Yes, vanderwal, there were certainly sites before Friendster to have friend features. One that predates even Ryze is PlanetAll (sold to Amazon and became “friends” feature there) that had friend functionality even before any social networking site.

Fixed the copy, though, to reflect that they weren’t the first. Thanks.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:23:18 +0000

It was Ryze that created the pivot on the friend and not Friendster. Friendster copied much of the interaction from Ryze and but a prettier skin on it. Ryze predates Friendster by 18 months to 2 years.

By: What’s the right primary pivot for your social media site? « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:57:50 +0000

[...] by jeremyliew in social media, social networks. trackback Bokardo has a good post recently, about finding the primary pivot of your social media site where he notes: Over time, the primary pivot of social software has [...]

By: Adam Crowe - links for 2007-10-04

Adam Crowe - links for 2007-10-04 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:41:34 +0000

[...] Bokardo – Finding the primary pivot “Over time the primary pivot of social software has shifted away from the topic thread and toward the person. People as the primary pivot also makes sense from a psychological standpoint. We act with ourselves as the center, why shouldnâ€™t our software?” (tags: usercentred design socialdesign socialmedia people software experiencedesign experience pivot objectcentredsociality) [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:55:47 +0000

Hey guys…good comments. Updated the post to reflect the discussion going further…

By: heri

heri — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:44:31 +0000

making people the pivot in chowhound wouldn’t make sense. the focus is on food, ie knowledge about food and all. there are lots of websites like this where we go for information and really don’t want our activities or names in the homepage (for instance wikipedia or travel websites)

making people the pivot would only make sense for me for a niche – websites to make friends, or to track our friend’s activities – twitter, facebook, friendfeed etc.

By: Michael J.

Michael J. — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:05:46 +0000

> like a food social networking site

By: Also a Chowhound

Also a Chowhound — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:55:54 +0000

Nice post. What would a pivot around people on a site like chowhound look like? My imagination is failing me. Aren’t you discussing chow?